Elements of Style

Fiction & Literature, Family Life, Contemporary Women, Literary
Cover of the book Elements of Style by Wendy Wasserstein, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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Author: Wendy Wasserstein ISBN: 9780307265548
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Publication: April 18, 2006
Imprint: Vintage Language: English
Author: Wendy Wasserstein
ISBN: 9780307265548
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication: April 18, 2006
Imprint: Vintage
Language: English

Elements of Style, the Pulitzer Prize—winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein’s first novel,is a scathing comedy about New York's high society facing the post—9/11 world. Francesca Weissman, an Upper East Side pediatrician rated number one by Manhattan magazine, floats on the fringes of the upper strata of privilege and aspiration. Through her bemused eyes we meet the thoroughbred socialite Samantha Acton; relentless social climber Judy Tremont; Barry Santorini, an Oscar-winning moviemaker accustomed to having his way; his supermarket heiress wife, Clarice; and more, tossed together in a frothy stew of outrageous conspicuous consumption and adulterous affairs that play out on Page Six. But when Wasserstein’s madcap tour of the social lives and mores of twenty-first-century Manhattan veers into tragedy, we finally see the true cost of her characters’ choices, and the beating heart of this dazzling novel.

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Elements of Style, the Pulitzer Prize—winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein’s first novel,is a scathing comedy about New York's high society facing the post—9/11 world. Francesca Weissman, an Upper East Side pediatrician rated number one by Manhattan magazine, floats on the fringes of the upper strata of privilege and aspiration. Through her bemused eyes we meet the thoroughbred socialite Samantha Acton; relentless social climber Judy Tremont; Barry Santorini, an Oscar-winning moviemaker accustomed to having his way; his supermarket heiress wife, Clarice; and more, tossed together in a frothy stew of outrageous conspicuous consumption and adulterous affairs that play out on Page Six. But when Wasserstein’s madcap tour of the social lives and mores of twenty-first-century Manhattan veers into tragedy, we finally see the true cost of her characters’ choices, and the beating heart of this dazzling novel.

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